When you can carry five full dinner platters on your left arm, you should be able to vote, even if you're not eighteen.

My grandma always said that God made libraries so that people didn't have any excuse to be stupid.

...Difficult relationships come into our lives for a reason. No one would choose them, certainly. But if we let them, they can teach us how to be flexible with others and more forgiving.

I'll tell you something about tough times. They just about kill you, but if you decide to keep working at them, you'll find your way through.

Everyone needs fudge, Hildy. It's how God helps us cope.

When you have something so important, something that you'll stay awake for, something you know that you were designed to do, well, it's worth getting a few dark circles, don't you think?

When the going gets tough, the tough get a librarian.

You've got to love yourself with all your short comings, and you've got to love the world no matter how bad it gets.

A heart will say amazing things if it's given half a chance.

Staring down hard truth takes guts.

Librarians understand about power - they know how to find anything.

Poetry, romance, beauty, and love have no book value, but life has no value without them.

Rejoicing is grounded in gratitude, with a keen appreciation for yourself, others, your abundance, and the beauty around you.

Free time is death to the anxious, and thank goodness I don't have any of it right now.

Matthew licked the fright induced sweat from his victim’s temple then bit a quarter sized piece of flesh from her right cheek as she flayed wildly under him.

I really don't feel as connected to Heaven as I do to the ones where I was there from start to finish. And on this record I was there for every moment.

Energy never dies. It just transforms.

Although the financial crisis, you know, receded a while ago, we kind of never picked up on it.

Sometimes I sit up late with my thoughts, reluctant to fall asleep and leave my thoughts alone by themselves.

Life is like a cobweb, not an organization chart.

This silence, this moment, every moment, If it's genuinely inside you, brings what you need.